Titles starting with D from Glenn Books

London: Society For Preserving Christian Knowledge, 1884. Pictorial cover still bright. Advertisements on rear cover. Endpapers browning. Seventeen illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, one of which is the colored frontispiece. Others are in black and white, some full-page, others within the text or as chapter head pieces. A very clean copy. (See Engen p.98). 52pp.. First Edition. Cloth-backed Pictorial Boards. Light Wear and Soiling.. Square Octavo. ... more information

London: The Lane Publications Vertical crack on spine. Seven color pop-ups including Santa and his sleigh, a lovely flower fairy, a circus tent, an intricate Chinese pagoda. A beautifully-preserved copy of this pop-up story book frequently found in considerable disrepair.. Color Pictorial Boards. Light Edge Wear and Soiling/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1947. Spine lettered in gilt . Published for the Bibliographical Society of America. 774 entries with index. A clean copy. 221pp.. First Edition. Green Cloth. Light Edge Wear./No Jacket.. Octavo. ... more information

London: John Murray, 1929. Although the title-page is dated 1918, the year of the first edition. This is the 1929, so-called "Brown" edition made up of left over sheets. Contains ten stories. A very clean copy. 246pp. See Green and Gibson A41ai. . Brown Edition.. Brown Cloth. Minor Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Madison University of Wisconsin 1957.. Tan cloth, fine in near fine pictorial dust wrapper. The story of the monumental efforts to control the Missouri River. Illustrated with numerous photographs. First edition.. ... more information

Philadelphia: Gedruckt Bey D. Billmeyer, 1817. Spine in six panels, undecorated. Two clasps on leather straps in good condition. Moderate rubbing noted. Some slight fraying at top on spine. Text in German, two column format. Internally very clean throughout. 572pp. Together with; "Die Kliene Harfe", 54pp.. Vierte Auflage (Fourth edition). Full Smooth Calf.. General Moderate Wear. Duodecimo. ... more information

Vienna: Verlag Der Allgemeinen Sport-Zeitung, 1899. Front cover and spine lettered in black. 170 pages of text followed by 30 full-page plates. Clean and crisp copy throughout. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title-page and dated 31 Juliet 1924. Inscribed with compliments of the author as a souvenir of the Paris Olympics. Six pages of advertisements at the end. Barbasetti (1859-1948) was an Italian fencing master, a graduate of the Scuola Magistrale in Rome. Text is in German.Pardoel 197.. First Edition. Grey C... more information

Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, Holden, 1834. Red leather spine label. Frontispiece engraving of a young girl reading a book. The book was originally in manuscript, written as a legacy to a motherless child. From the preface,"The author adds his earnest prayer that it may be read with some degree of advantage by young females.especially those deprived of the benefit of maternal care and instruction." Chapters on early friendships, education, reading, conversations, manners, amusements, marriage, reli... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. Small rubbed spot back cover. With 9 full-page illustrations. 406pp.. Reprint Edition. Green Ribbed Cloth. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Kansas City: Executive Publishing Company, 1929. Red cloth sewn-in bookmark. Light edge wear and soiling. Illustrated throughout in cartoon by H. Wood. We do not know who Ainoch was but he leaves a dedication signed "H.J." A book full of clever, and not so clever, anecdotes and sayings; such as "A lump in the throat caused by gladness never chokes", and "You don't have to be a florist to hand out a bouquet". About 1000 more!!. 270pp.. First Edition. Red Cloth. Moderate Edg... more information

London: John Long, 1962. A day-by-day account of the events leading to the death of James. 176pp.. First English Editiion. Black Cloth. Nearly Fine/Light Chipping, Soiling.. Octavo. ... more information

New York: New York A.L. Burt Company (1904)., 1904. Lettered and designed in darker green. Cameo color pictorial onlay front cover. Four full-page color illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Decorations on each page by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong. A nicely preserved reprint using the original Dodd, Mead plates and format. (BAL 13506). 137pp.. Reprint Edition. Green Clothy.. Slight Edge Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

New York: Doubleday & McClure Company., 1898. This is Amy Lowell's copy, signed and dated, "Boston, 1898" on front free endpaper. Top edge gilt. Endleaves browned. Fronjt hinge starting to weaken a bit. 431pp. See Livingston 169. . First American Edition. Green Pictorial Cloth.. Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

New York: Doubleday and McClure Company, 1898. Lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Front cover design bright. Precedes first British edition. Ink inscription, dated Oct.21, 1898, on front flyleaf. Namestamp and closed tear on plate, p.88. 431pp. Livingston 169.. First American Edition. Green Pictorial Cloth.. Minor Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

Coloniae Agrippinae(Cologne, Germany): Ioannem Kinckium, 1628. All edges stained red. Spine with five raised bands and leather label. Title-page in red and black with unicorn vignette. Full page map "Alexandri Magni Macedoniis Expeditio" and two fold-out plates, one of Babylon, the other showing statues of Bucephalus and Alexander. All plates are intact and clean. Floriated first letters of chapters. Paper is browned in some places, but generally quite fresh and clean throughout. [ (xii), (vi), 3 ... more information

Lugduni (Lyon): Theobaldum Paganum, 1556. Brown leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's name dated 1721 on front preliminary page. Vignette title-pages. Fore-edge shows old damp-stain on final few pages, otherwise quite clean throughout. [ (xliv), 547, (xxxi), 136, (xii), 60, (viii), 68, (viii), 33, (viii)]. One fold-out genealogy plate of the Porciae Familiae. Cicero (106BC-43BC) wrote "De Officiis" (On Duties or On Obligations) in the last year of his life. He wrote it in t... more information

London: Macmillan London Limited, 1984. The Ninth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael is set as usual in the Benedictine Abbey at Shrewsbury where Cadfael serves as gardener and amateur sleuth. Jacket color illustration by Martin White. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author and dated July 1985 on the title-page. 190pp.. First English Edition. Emerald Green Cloth. Fine/Fine. Octavo. ... more information

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1959. Jacket is chipped at spine extremities and corners, lightly soiled. "Dear Dead Days is Charles Addams' outrageous assault on nostalgia". A clean copy throughout. Bizarre cartoons, drawings, and photographic reproductions.126pp.. First Edition. Light Blue Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear/Price-clipped Dust Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

New York: Harper Collins, 1995. The fourth volume in the Guido Brunetti Mystery series. SIGNED by the author on the title-page. Jacket design by Honi Werner. A powerful attorney has been shot to death on the train between Padua and Venice and Commissario Brunetti of the Venice police must again solve the case. Published in England as "A Venetian Reckoning". A pristine copy. 289pp.. First American Edition.. Paper-covered Boards.. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. ... more information

New York, 1922. Signed by the author on the title-page. This is the author's first book, exposing us to an unorthodox and irresistable Venetian sleuth by the name of Guido Brunetti. Awarded Japan's prestigious Suntory Prize as best suspense novel of 1991. 263PP.. First American Edition.. Paper-covered Boards.. Fine/Fine.. Octavo. ... more information